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Eric Parry’s revised 1 Undershaft tower set for approval this Friday

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Planning officers back amended scheme despite Historic England saying it is ‘arguably worse’ than previous proposal

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DSDHA’s plans for West End office redevelopment resurface after six years

Edge and Mitsubishi Estate take over Shaftesbury Avenue scheme originally developed for Almacantar

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  • What made this project… Barn X by LOM architecture and design

  • Reimagining Outdoor Spaces with Marshalls’ Modal X at Cambridge Biomedical Campus

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Heritage, sustainability, and dysfunction: the lessons of the M&S decision

The drawn-out battle over M&S’s Oxford Street site reflects systemic planning failures that must be addressed

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Architect of the Year Awards 2024

  • What made this project… NMIS interiors by HLM Architects

  • What made this project… Barn X by LOM architecture and design

  • What made this project… n2 by Lynch Architects

  • What made this project… House of Communication by Henn

  • What made this project… Central Foundation Boys’ School by Hawkins Brown

  • What made this project… The Wave by HLM Architects

  • What made this project… Craigend Resource Centre by Inch Architecture

  • What made this project… Downland Barns by McLean Quinlan

  • Big names among winners of 2024 Architect of the Year Awards

  • What made this project… Westminster Coroner’s Court by Lynch Architects

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Boomers to Zoomers

  • Labour urged to address built environment’s role in young people’s lives

  • Rowan Court: a blueprint for council housing that repairs the urban fabric and elevates its context

  • Taskforce calls for cross-departmental unit to lead national older people’s housing strategy

  • School closures threaten London’s future as a city for families

  • Beyond the Box: delivering real social value in the built environment

  • ‘Because the spaces work for children, they work for everyone’ – how the Whittington estate fosters a community for all ages

  • Creating places and spaces where children and young people thrive

  • A crisis hiding in plain sight: how the UK’s built environment is failing children and young people

  • A triangular community: how Author brings generations together at King’s Cross

  • Teenagers collaborate on King’s Cross timber pavilion

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  • Moxon completes ‘hockey stick’ bridge crossing the River Severn

  • Allies and Morrison completes final residential building within its own King’s Cross masterplan

  • BakerBrown Studio completes low carbon house on the South Downs

  • Ao–ft completes sustainable infill home in Walthamstow

  • Hassell unveils health and social care building for University of Edinburgh’s BioQuarter

  • Threefold Architects completes retrofit of grade II-listed office building for Crown Estate

  • THISS Studio reconfigures Victorian terraced house without extending

  • Manalo & White and Richard Lyndon Design unveil new school building for deaf children

  • Chris Dyson Architects completes sustainable addition to Harrow Arts Centre campus

  • Hassell completes University of Glasgow’s Adam Smith Business School

WA100 2024

  • WA100 2024: Architects expect patchy international growth

  • WA100 2024: The big list

  • WA100 2024: Digital edition

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Notre Dame reopens: the power of craft, culture, and community

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Five years after the fire that devastated Notre Dame, Liz Smith reflects on the cathedral’s reopening to the public

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Workplace culture: the overlooked crisis in architecture and how to fix it

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The consultation on the ARB’s new code of conduct is an opportunity to shape the profession’s future – but does it address the real issues?

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Heritage, sustainability, and dysfunction: the lessons of the M&S decision

2024-12-06T10:54:00+00:00By 2 comments

The drawn-out battle over M&S’s Oxford Street site reflects systemic planning failures that must be addressed

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How public sector procurement reform can unlock innovation in architecture and empower SMEs

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Procurement processes must evolve to enable a broader range of architects to contribute innovative solutions to housing and infrastructure

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Labour must deliver on its promised planning reforms to drive economic growth

2024-12-04T10:30:00+00:00By 2 comments

The Office for Budget Responsibility seems unconvinced about Starmer’s growth agenda, but crucially it did not take into account the economic impact of the government’s proposed planning changes, writes Paul Smith

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Is the age of the starchitect at an end?

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As team culture grows, how does architecture retain its public appeal, asks Eleanor Jolliffe

  • How Bennetts Associates transformed a Victorian hospital into a forward-focused university department

  • Rowan Court: a blueprint for council housing that repairs the urban fabric and elevates its context

  • Space House: 1960s icon gets another chance to shine

  • Midland Metropolitan University Hospital: Inside the long, costly journey to deliver Birmingham and Sandwell’s new £1bn ‘super hospital’

  • A triangular community: how Author brings generations together at King’s Cross

  • A decade in the making: Norton Folgate’s controversial redevelopment unveiled

  • ‘A glimpse of new horizons’: Cooke Fawcett’s reworking of Cockpit’s craft incubator

  • A harmonious blend of context and concept: Mass Studies reimagines the Serpentine Pavilion

  • Under The Big Roof… Charity unites generations and nurtures skills that last a lifetime

  • London College of Fashion strikes a pose with new campus by Allies & Morrison

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  • Modern Architecture in a Post-Modern Era

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  • Nithurst Farm: ‘an uncompromising engagement with architecture in all its spatial, material, and symbolic richness’

  • Who was to blame for the unseaming of Britain’s cities?

  • Interwar: Gavin Stamp’s tribute to Britain’s forgotten architectural diversity

  • Navigating the complexities of modern practice management

  • Inside Cedric Price’s archive: A career of unrealised visions and radical thinking

  • ‘A fantastic, informative, and in-depth resource’: new guide helps illuminate the architecture apprenticeship pathway

  • Playing the Game: Work-Life Balance in Architecture

  • How to make good cities